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2014-03-20Teach the call_time trace to notice when the trace dies (non-SMP system)Björn Gustavsson
The call_time trace is a special kind of tracing that requires a tracer process just like ordinary call trace, but it never actually sends anything to the tracer. It merely use the existence of a trace process (and call trace flags) as an indication that call_time tracing is active for the process. If the tracer dies in a non-SMP run-time system, processes with call_time tracing would not notice that the tracer had died. Furthermore, if the set_on_spawn flag was active, the dead tracer could be propagaged to newly spawned processes. Before accumulating trace information in a non-SMP system, always validate the tracer process. (In an SMP system, a reference to a dead tracer will be cleared away each time a process is scheduled.) While we could put all of the new code beam_bp.c, we have chosen to make a function call from beam_bp.c to a function in erl_trace.c for clarity's sake and to ease further maintenance. In the future, we might want to handle tracing in more similar ways in the SMP and non-SMP system.
2014-02-24ose: Thread priorities configurable from lmconfLukas Larsson
The pattern used for getting the priority from the lmconf is based on the name of the process created. The pattern is: ERTS_%%PROCESS_NAME%%_PRIO with the %%PROCESS_NAME%% replaced by the prefix of the process the priority applies to. eg: ERTS_SCHEDULER_PRIO=24 applies to processes with name SCHEDULER_1, SCHEDULER_2 etc.
2014-02-24ose: Add fair scheduling yieldsLukas Larsson
This is needed on OSs that do not do round robin scheduling of threads.
2014-02-24Added support for ENEA OSELukas Larsson
This port has support for both non-smp and smp. It contains a new way to do io checking in which erts_poll_wait receives the payload of the polled entity. This has implications for all linked-in drivers.
2013-09-30erts: Rename erts_bld_atom_uint_2tup_list to *_uword_*Sverker Eriksson
and change from Uint to UWord values
2013-06-12Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2013-05-02Add system_monitor of long_schedulePatrik Nyblom
2012-12-14Merge branch 'sverk/egil/r16/new-alloc-header-scheme/OTP-10273'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
OTP-10415 * sverk/egil/r16/new-alloc-header-scheme/OTP-10273: (42 commits) erts: Make ll main mbc fit into 2pow size erts: Clear entire mseg cache upon request erts: Reduce max heap sizes tests: Refactor away ?line macro in beam_SUITE tests: Fix heap_sizes check tests: Refactor away ?line macro in process_SUITE tests: Use new correct min_bin_vheap_size in test erts: Set super alignment (256kb) and limits for sbct (8Mb) and lmbcs (128Mb) erts: Do not cache segments that are misaligned erts: Add mseg cache for large sbc segments erts: Reintroduce mseg options amcbf and rmcbf erts: Optimize erl_alloc_util.c by substitute MBC_BLK_SZ erts: Fix bug when allocating size near sbc_threshold erts: Make gc sizes fit into MB Carrier blocks erts: Force sbmbc to be disabled in a crude way erts: Fix new header scheme for win64 erts: Fix mseg cache. Malplaced NULL pointer erts: Remove unused mseg options amcbf and rmcbf erts: Use aligned bits as constant in mseg_alloc erts: Don't let zero be considered a power of two ... Conflicts: erts/emulator/test/process_SUITE.erl
2012-12-07Merge branch 'rickard/port-optimizations/OTP-10336' into ↵Rickard Green
rickard/r16/port-optimizations/OTP-10336 * rickard/port-optimizations/OTP-10336: Change annotate level for emacs-22 in cerl Update etp-commands Add documentation on communication in Erlang Add support for busy port message queue Add driver callback epilogue Implement true asynchronous signaling between processes and ports Add erl_drv_[send|output]_term Move busy port flag Use rwlock for driver list Optimize management of port tasks Improve configuration of process and port tables Remove R9 compatibility features Use ptab functionality also for ports Prepare for use of ptab functionality also for ports Atomic port state Generalize process table implementation Implement functionality for delaying thread progress from unmanaged threads Conflicts: erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml erts/doc/src/erlang.xml erts/emulator/beam/beam_bif_load.c erts/emulator/beam/beam_bp.c erts/emulator/beam/beam_emu.c erts/emulator/beam/bif.c erts/emulator/beam/copy.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_info.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_port.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_trace.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_init.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_message.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_port_task.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h erts/emulator/beam/erl_process_lock.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_trace.c erts/emulator/beam/export.h erts/emulator/beam/global.h erts/emulator/beam/io.c erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c erts/emulator/sys/vxworks/sys.c erts/emulator/test/port_SUITE.erl erts/etc/unix/cerl.src erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam erts/preloaded/ebin/prim_inet.beam erts/preloaded/src/prim_inet.erl lib/hipe/cerl/erl_bif_types.erl lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml lib/kernel/src/inet.erl
2012-12-03Use ptab functionality also for portsRickard Green
2012-12-03Prepare for use of ptab functionality also for portsRickard Green
2012-12-03Generalize process table implementationRickard Green
2012-11-13erts: Fix compiler warnings for halfword vmSverker Eriksson
2012-06-25Don't go to single-scheduler mode when managing breakpointsBjörn Gustavsson
Calls to erlang:set_trace_pattern/3 will no longer block all other schedulers. We will still go to single-scheduler mode when new code is loaded for a module that is traced, or when loading code when there is a default trace pattern set. That is not impossible to fix, but that requires much closer cooperation between tracing BIFs and the loader BIFs.
2012-06-25Change the data structures for breakpointsBjörn Gustavsson
Change the data structures for breakpoints to make it possible (in a future commit) to manage breakpoints without taking down the system to single-scheduling mode. The current "breakpoint wheel" data structure (a circular, double-linked list of breakpoints) was invented before the SMP emulator. To support it in the SMP emulator, there is essentially one breakpoint wheel per scheduler. As more breakpoint types have been added, the implementation has become messy and hard to understand and maintain. Therefore, the time for a rewrite has come. Use one struct to hold all breakpoint data for a breakpoint in a function. Use a flag field to indicate what different type of break actions that are enabled.
2012-04-27Optimize process state changesRickard Green
2012-04-16Optimize process table accessRickard Green
2012-03-30Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2012-03-22Change to more specific configure options for dtracePatrik Nyblom
2012-03-22Add user tag spreading functionality to VM and use in filePatrik Nyblom
User tags in a dynamic trace enabled VM are spread throughout the system in the same way as seq_trace tokens. This is used by the file module and various other modules to get hold of the tag from the user process without changing the protocol.
2012-01-17erts: Do not profile profiler pid (non smp)Björn-Egil Dahlberg
2012-01-16erts: Do not profile profiler pid (smp)Björn-Egil Dahlberg
2012-01-16Revert "erts: Do not profile system profiler pid"Björn-Egil Dahlberg
This reverts commit 4a8ce05083b9c88b94560f400370dbc656893b6e. * Above commit has a lock order violation
2012-01-03erts: Do not profile system profiler pidBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2011-11-13Merge branch 'rickard/thr-progress-block/OTP-9631'Rickard Green
* rickard/thr-progress-block/OTP-9631: Replace system block with thread progress block
2011-11-13Replace system block with thread progress blockRickard Green
The ERTS internal system block functionality has been replaced by new functionality for blocking the system. The old system block functionality had contention issues and complexity issues. The new functionality piggy-backs on thread progress tracking functionality needed by newly introduced lock-free synchronization in the runtime system. When the functionality for blocking the system isn't used there is more or less no overhead at all. This since the functionality for tracking thread progress is there and needed anyway.
2011-10-26Change the calling convention for BIFsBjörn Gustavsson
The current calling convention for BIFs makes it necessary to handle each arity specially, since each argument for the BIF also becomes an argument for the C function implementing the BIF, which makes it hard to allow BIFs with any number of arguments. Change the calling convention for BIFs, so that BIF arguments are passed in an array to the C function implementing the BIF.
2011-05-11erl_trace: Eliminate alias warningBjörn Gustavsson
Avoid creating two variable names referring to the same memory area, because that can cause aliasing warnings in some versions of gcc.
2011-02-03HALFWORD ETS Further match spec optimization to minimize copying and garbageSverker Eriksson
2010-06-03Teach call time trace patterns to include bifsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2010-06-01Keep process lock over trace of unregisterPatrik Nyblom
2010-03-10Add the BeamInstr data type for loaded BEAM codePatrik Nyblom
For cleanliness, use BeamInstr instead of the UWord data type to any machine-sized words that are used for BEAM instructions. Only use UWord for untyped words in general.
2010-03-10Store pointers to heap data in 32-bit wordsPatrik Nyblom
Store Erlang terms in 32-bit entities on the heap, expanding the pointers to 64-bit when needed. This works because all terms are stored on addresses in the 32-bit address range (the 32 most significant bits of pointers to term data are always 0). Introduce a new datatype called UWord (along with its companion SWord), which is an integer having the exact same size as the machine word (a void *), but might be larger than Eterm/Uint. Store code as machine words, as the instructions are pointers to executable code which might reside outside the 32-bit address range. Continuation pointers are stored on the 32-bit stack and hence must point to addresses in the low range, which means that loaded beam code much be placed in the low 32-bit address range (but, as said earlier, the instructions themselves are full words). No Erlang term data can be stored on C stacks (enforced by an earlier commit). This version gives a prompt, but test cases still fail (and dump core). The loader (and emulator loop) has instruction packing disabled. The main issues has been in rewriting loader and actual virtual machine. Subsystems (like distribution) does not work yet.
2010-03-10Fit all heap data into the 32-bit address rangePatrik Nyblom
This is the first step in the implementation of the half-word emulator, a 64-bit emulator where all pointers to heap data will be stored in 32-bit words. Code specific for this emulator variant is conditionally compiled when the HALFWORD_HEAP define has a non-zero value. First force all pointers to heap data to fall into a single 32-bit range, but still store them in 64-bit words. Temporary term data stored on C stack is moved into scheduler specific storage (allocated as heaps) and macros are added to make this happen only in emulators where this is needed. For a vanilla VM the temporary terms are still stored on the C stack.
2010-01-15Merge branch 'egil/binary-gc' into ccase/r13b04_devErlang/OTP
* egil/binary-gc: Add documentation for binary heap size settings. Add tracing capabilities for binary virtual heap Add min heap size start options to beam and erl Improve binary garbage collection OTP-8370 The default settings for garbage collection of binaries has been adjusted to be less aggressive than in R13B03. It is now also possible configure the settings for binary GC. See the documentation for spawn_opt/2-5, erlang:system_info/1, erlang:system_flag/2, process_flag/2-3, erlang:trace/3, and the documenation for erl for the new command line options +hms and +hmbs.
2010-01-13Add tracing capabilities for binary virtual heapBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2009-11-20The R13B03 release.OTP_R13B03Erlang/OTP